Managing the IE (Industrial Engineering) Mindset: A quantitative investigation of Toyota’s practical thinking shared among employees

Purpose: The goal of this work was to investigate the managerial practices of today to understand if Toyota is sheltering themselves from these newer practices or embracing them like most believe. Design/methodology/approach: This work utilizes a new form of data mining named Latent Semantic Analysi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Marksberry, Phillip, Parsley, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/12225
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2099/12225
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lean manufacturing
Production management
Toyota Production System (TPS)
Scientific management
Dimensional reduction algorithm
Industrial engineering
Producció -- Direcció i administració
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Direcció d'operacions::Sistemes productius
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Gestió i direcció::Recursos humans
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Sumario:Purpose: The goal of this work was to investigate the managerial practices of today to understand if Toyota is sheltering themselves from these newer practices or embracing them like most believe. Design/methodology/approach: This work utilizes a new form of data mining named Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze an organizations ideal management practices. Findings: This work shows quantitatively that TPS favors earlier versions of industrial engineering compared to the optimization techniques available today. Originality/value: The use of data mining to analyze organizational management practices